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There will be no issues... I mean, we melted like 4-7 feet of snow out of 2,000ft-4,000ft in about 4 days during that March heatwave with no problem. There was even snow in the valleys from that one and based on my hydro snow surveys prior to that March meltdown we had around 14" of liquid in the snowpack at 3,000ft and that pretty much all released in 96 hours.

Now, if we were to get some thunderstorms that put down some serious rainfall in the basin in short amount of time, along with snow melt, then we may have some flash flooding issues. The Mansfield Co-Op received over 4" of QPF in this past event which is locked up in almost 30" of snow, so there will be some water released, but I can't imagine it will be an issue.

Last year we had flash flooding issues in April from snowpack melt and a thunderstorm over Mansfield that produced 3" in 3 hours of heavy rainfall... that combined with several inches of liquid release from snow and we'll have a problem.

I wonder how much of that glacial mass sublimated rather than liquified... That March warmth had some incredible 55 to 60F DP depressions with it...

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Scott .. .not surprising on the GFS. It's been overly aggressive with the "buckling" in Canada in the nearer terms, which was making it's middle range uber SPV idea somewhat suspect all along.

I am really more taken by the lack of meaningful CAA next week... That warmth really gets cut by +3C 850 types stuff... That's going to be a real green-up signaler, I think more so than that fun in March.

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Have flipped over to snow! What am odd day. Started out with graupel then a heavier shower (stronger updraft) moved in and mixed some hail in. Now we've seen enough dynamic/evaporative cooling to flip things over to snow. Pretty cool to watch the evolution.

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Have flipped over to snow! What am odd day. Started out with graupel then a heavier shower (stronger updraft) moved in and mixed some hail in. Now we've seen enough dynamic/evaporative cooling to flip things over to snow. Pretty cool to watch the evolution.

Yeah saw the tweet from Killington.

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